ASW: "The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid"
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Join us for our in-person African Studies Workshop! The workshop series is a scholarly space for Africa-centered research, offering a diverse range of topics and scholarly backgrounds to explore historical and current conditions.
SPEAKER: Jacob S. T. Dlamini, Professor of History, Director, Program in African Studies
TITLE: "The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid"
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Biography:Jacob Dlamini is a historian of Africa, with an interest in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. Jacob held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from November 2011 to April 2015, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015. A qualified field guide, Jacob is also interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks.
If you are in Cambridge/Boston, we encourage you to join us in the Seminar Room at the Center for African Studies. If you are joining us virtually, please register here on Zoom.
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